Despite Politicians, American Revolt Against Immigration Gathers Force
By Bryanna Bevens

Personally, I thought the California Border Police Initiative (ACA 20) was a remarkably simple solution to an unruly mess.

According to California State Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R-Temecula), ACA 20 was

"a constitutional amendment designed to create the California Border Police, a state agency whose sole purpose, if we can ever get it formed, would be the comprehensive, uniform, and statewide enforcement of federal immigration law."

(Of course, immigration enforcement is supposedly a federal matter, not the responsibility of individual state governments. In practice, however, it is the states, not the feds, who shoulder the bulk of the burden.) But apparently not everyone agreed with me about ACA 20. It has been crushed in California’s Judiciary Committee by a 6 to 3 vote. The NOES were
Chairman, Assemblyman Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) [ Email]
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) [ Email]
Assemblyman John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) [ Email]
Assemblyman Lloyd Levine (D-Van Nuys) [ Email]
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View) [ Email]
Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez (D-San Fernando) [ Email]

Another recent legislative casualty in the same session of the Judiciary Committee: ACA 6, offered by Assemblyman Mark Wyland (R-Vista). According to the legislative digest: "This measure would prohibit the state from issuing any driver's license, state identification card, providing in-state tuition or fees for postsecondary education, granting any voting privileges, or providing any health, social, or other state or local public benefit to any person who is neither a citizen of the United States nor an alien lawfully present in the United States…" And ACA 20 would also have required proof of citizenship to voteâ€â€